Congratulations on completing high school. You did it! I saw the pictures you posted on Facebook. You look happy amidst your other high school chums. You were among the thousands and thousands of young people who graduated last month. It's an important right of passage.

I graduated high school in 1986 and remember throwing my cap into the air. It was such a feeling of incredible glee and freedom. In 1986, you weren't even born then. I did not...